2762 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



{Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



recurved ventrally lobed acute spur; ovary imbedded, flat 

 at the top; style terete, glabrous, 2 mm long, terminated 

 by a minute stigma. Fruiting pedicels 1 mm thick, twice 

 as long, terete, glabrous, subtended by a series of unequal 

 rather sharply pointed subpersistent and glabrous bracts; 

 fruit 4 mm long including the broad somewhat constricted 

 calyx portion, 3 mm thick below the middle or widest por- 

 tion, smooth, glabrous, hard, apparently with a single large 

 seed. 



Type specimen numbers 13562 in flower and 14181 in 

 fruit, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province 

 of Agusan, Mindanao, August and October respectively, 



Both of these numbers were collected on steep densely 

 forested inclines or sides of ravines at approximately 3500 

 feet altitude and in the general region between Duros and 

 Cawilanan peaks. The first number cited was named "Sig- 

 anog" by the Manobos who also named the other number 

 "Lantoganon." They represent exactly the same species. 

 The wood in the twigs of the flowering specimens had a 

 slight odor of winter green or sweet chewing gum. I have 

 on several occasions noticed this odorous character and re- 

 corded it so for Memecylon odoratum Elm. of Palawan. 



Sufficiently distinct from Memecylon densiflorum Merr., 

 Memecylon gitingeme Elm. and Memecylon palawanense Elm. 



Memecylon gigantifolivm Elm. n. sp. 



A very slender tree; stem 1 dm thick, terete, crooked, 

 8 m high, branched at the top; wood hard and heavy, the 

 thin outer portion whitish, latericius toward the center, without 

 odor or taste; bark very thin, yellowish, smooth or flaking 

 in thin plates, more or less finely checked on the branches; 

 twigs terete, the young portion glabrous and reddish brown 

 after being dried, quite rigid, horizontal or the longer ones 

 somewhat drooping, only sparingly rebranched. Leaves op- 

 posite, well scattering along the branchlets, descending, rath- 

 er heavy and chartaceous, the terminal ones smaller and fre- 

 quently very unequal in size, duller green on the upper 

 nearly flat side, the young ones light green, curing very 

 unequally brown on the 2 sides, subsessile, the smaller ones 



